Tandoori Chicken Buns

Coming back to the office after having spent almost three weeks at home is not easy. If I would have travelled, I wouldn’t have felt much. But the time spent with the kids is making me really emotional. As I called home to check regarding the kids, I could hear Azza crying out loud. Yes, she is a cranky bit, who needs a lot maneuvering to be handled. And I was surprised that I could handle her much easier than my umma, who takes care of her on a daily basis yet finds it difficult! Is it because I am her mother? Can be… I have had 17 fabulous days in the company of my daughters, who wrestled for my attention! Azza managed to win each time from Rasha as she did not give any loopholes for Rasha to come back in, which made her boil with jealousy! But I guess, that’s with all elder ones, and I used to just console her to be in peace with the truth of life! In short, those days are finish and now I am back to the routine of waking up early, being stuck in traffic, reaching office, finishing off work, going back home, breaking my head over dinner, rushing up the kids to sleep so that I could go back to the beginning of the circle again…

Off to the recipe for today, a simple treat that I tried while browsing through many many recipes. I just mixed and matched, and made this yummy chicken bun, which was so highly taken up by the crowd at home for their cup of tea! What’s more, it uses wholewheat flour, olive oil and has no eggs!!! So you can give it a little label called “healthy”. It only went on to reinforce my love for yeast again… 🙂

Updated with new pictures and improved recipe on May 23, 2018: This is one of the oldest recipes on the blog. During those times, all my successes would just appear. 😀 I still do the same, but I am just being very thoughtful of whatever I am putting in. If I am not satisfied, I just scrap it off. I guess as we mature as bloggers, we get a bit more concerned about what all we post on the blog. Last weekend, I was invited to my cousin’s house for Iftar. Usually, I carry something from my side, just to make myself feel good. I remembered these buns and baked them.

If initially I baked them big for dinner, this time, I baked them small – in fact I should have made them smaller but it really doesn’t matter. I adapted the filling to be similar to my Tandoori Chicken recipe and made it as simple as possible. I did an egg wash and that’s why you can see a beautiful golden glaze to the buns. They peeled off beautifully and all my cousins who had them totally loved how soft the buns were and how delicious the filling tasted. Alhamdulillah… 🙂 I have kept the recipe with the same measurements, though I made it with 1 1/2 quantity in the new clicks. Hope you will try it for your Iftar snack and will love it too.

It had been so long since I had done yeasted bakes so my shaping was slightly off. 😀 I couldn’t take a picture of the inside since I carried it to my cousin’s house just covered with aluminium foil and I totally forgot to click a picture in the frenzy. Just that the color was deeper than what you can see in my old pictures.

Due to the use of partial wholewheat flour, the buns may be little dense. You can use all APF as per your liking.For the filling, you can just substitute the masala powders with tandoori masala powder if available. That was how it was in my initial post.Skip the chopped chillies if giving to kids, to avoid any bites.

well..indeed once my eldest one asked me."mamma, is Stefan (my youngest) ur boyfriend ? he is always hugging u..n u are always kissing him !!!!..lol..its soo true how the littel ones can so tactically push in their ways ahead of the others ..yeah ? and yes..we are now back to routine life…:( ..hummm…..and that u do find to keep posting recipes on such a regualr basis is soo applaudable, Rafs ! lovely filling…keep in touch..hugs…